(24 quotes found)
“Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions.”
Thomas S. Szasz
“Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.”
Carl Gustav Jung
“The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.”
William Styron
“Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.”
Sigmund Freud
“Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis”
“Sin, guilt, neurosis /they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.”
Henry Miller
“A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.”
“There is always this element of concealed accusation in neurosis, the patient feeling as though he were deprived of his right-that is, of the center of attention - and wanting to fix the responsibility and blame upon someone.”
Alfred Adler
“Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being”
Paul Tillich
“The neurosis in which the search for safety takes its clearest form is in the compulsive-obsessive neurosis. Compulsive-obsessive to frantically order and stabilize the world so that no unmanageable, unexpected or unfamiliar dangers will ever appear.”
Abraham Maslow
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